Multiple XSS vulnerabilities patched in WordPress plugins October 2026
Sucuri publishes October 2026 roundup of medium and high-risk flaws in Elementor, LiteSpeed Cache, and WooCommerce.
Sensitive Information Exposure in Elementor Website Builder up to 4.2.3
The Elementor Website Builder plugin for WordPress contains a sensitive information exposure flaw via the 'keys_conversion_map' parameter. Authenticated attackers with contributor or higher privileges can trigger it to extract full post_content and plaintext post_passwords of private, draft, pending, and future posts for any author. This affects all WordPress sites running the vulnerable version.
What to do: No fixed version listed. Apply Elementor's update for CVE-2026-11905
| Product | Affected |
|---|---|
| WordPress Elementor Website Builder | up to and including 4.2.3 |
Order-of-magnitude estimate by the model from install counts, market share and public scan data it knows; verify before quoting.
The Elementor Website Builder – more than just a page builder plugin for WordPress is vulnerable to Sensitive Information Exposure in all versions up to, and including, 4.2.3 via the 'keys_conversion_map' parameter. This makes it possible for authenticated attackers, with contributor-level access and above, to extract the full post_content and plaintext post_password of private, draft, pending, and future posts belonging to any author, including Administrators and Editors.
Sucuri publishes October 2026 roundup of medium and high-risk flaws in Elementor, LiteSpeed Cache, and WooCommerce.
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